Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Anniversary #6 in fact...what?? what in the world happened to those 6 years? Wow. Good times no doubt. So we decided to celebrate with a 3-day backpack trip in the Tetons. And it was wonderful. Here are some of the pics...

Trev meandering down a zig-zagging trail. Despite reports on the radio that it was supposed to rain ONE INCH! that day, we decided to go for it anyway and got barely a sprinkle on us. Goes to show, don't believe everything you hear...or maybe we are just lucky!

Beautiful scenery, dwarfed by Green Mountain on the right.

We made it to our destination of Upper Green Lake and set up camp.

Trev trying out his best Blue Steel look. : )

Lakeside reading as the sun sets. Yep, I would have to say I'm pretty content.

Air. Earth. Water. Fire.

The next day we went exploring and wandered around this amazing expanse.

Lichen love.

Then we hiked up to the Wilderness and Grand Teton National Park boundary and Trev was excited.

And I did a tree on top of the mountain.

Trev doing some jagged rock walking.

GT National Park on the left < ME in the middle > Wilderness land (& our camp) on the right

I always bring this male model along to make the surroundings look better.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Yesterday was awesome. Seems Friday's always give me really good perspective on how lucky I am to have the ability to have Friday's off. When you break it down and really think about it, that is 52 days more a year off than if I only had two day weekends. That is over 7 weeks of days off a year just with Fridays. Sooooooooo, I remember this when I get up at 5:30 every morning and hitting the office at 6 am. No matter what happens during my work week, I continually have Friday at the end of the tunnel to look forward to. Fridays are my go to day to ride motorsports. Not that our mountains really ever have anyone in them, but on Friday's they are even less crowded. Yesterday was one of those days that you just want to put on slow motion, bottle it, and try to squeeze 32 hours out of the standard 24.

Drew, enjoying the view at 10,000 ft high in the Palisades Range, south of Jackson.

Indian Creek Divide. Amazing. Allow a rant if you will..............., this quite simply is what makes moto so appealing to me. We are 25 miles to the nearest pavement here. It would take two full, full days to walk there. If one wanted to mountain bike there, well, it would take the same amount of time as you would have your bike on your back the whole ride. Moto gets one so deep in the backcountry and allows you to see terrain that you wouldn't normally get to see. Drew and I had been up in this area a couple of times on sleds before, its a "really big" area. Huge peaks, climbs, and passes. Friday was the last day it was open for the season, it closes for hunting in the fall.

Off the divide, heading down 4,000ft. Buffed single track at 10,000 ft with not a soul around for miles. Does it get any better?

Big country!!! Drew, looking very small to scale going down the headwaters of the South Fork of Indian Creek.

There was a ton of "no fall" zones on the way out. Lots of sidehills with pretty serious consequences.

After a ten mile downhill, we came out to the what once was Palisades Reservoir! Idaho sucked Wyomings water almost dry this summer. Between irrigation needs for potatoes and dairy cattle, our waterways are as low as anyone can ever remember. Scope the sides of the reservoir in the shot. The lake level is down probably 50-60 ft!!!

What, a big adventure and we made it back to the truck before dark? That never happens!

Not to be outdone by Scuba Steve, Drew picked up a new YZ 450 of his own yesterday. This bike will never, ever look like this again! Priorities clearly appropriate. A $7000 moto and a $700 truck. Drew abides.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Munger closed on Monday. Total bummer, but......, it will open again next July 1st, and you can better believe we will be there ripping it up again. The final mission on Monday after work was pretty similar to all the rest. Nothing short of amazing. Sunset, with buds, doing fun stuff. Just was missing Chels. Jesse and Dane joined and we rallied until it was dark.

Jesse, climbing up the north side of Big Munger.

Me, looking south over some of our favorite sledding terrain in the Pallisades.

We were the last moto'ers of the season and we got it to the very last throttle pull. It was an insanely fun summer riding moto in the valley. Gonna miss it, but now its time to ride in Idaho and down in the desert. Soon enough winter will be here, skiing, sledding, hell yes.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The weekend camping moved from Fall Creek up to the Gros Venture halfway through. Seems like most all of the valley is saying this is as wet of a September as anyone can remember. It felt more like May up the GV than fall.

Handy and all the fixings for fun.

Shannon and Zoe. I think its safe to say that Zoe will be one of the more badass chics around. She already is, having camped, chilled, and listened to dirtbikes all weekend long.

Zoe in the Sportsmobile, sleeping.

Sweet Teton sunset from the Wedding Tree.

Steve managed to show up with a lil surprise in the back of his truck one of the days. Holy shit.....A brand new YZ 450. Serious moto envy!

And of course, the best for last. Tanner, in all his 6 year old glory, sending it over, and over, and over through this great mud bog! He was literally entertained for hours.

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CHELSEA, TREVOR, DASH + STEVIE ROBINSON: LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

We live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and try to love up every second of the short two-month summers, the deserted falls, the freezing winters and the sloppy springs because really we can't think of another place we would rather be. This is a little online version of our adventures, mainly for those of you we wish could be here enjoying it with us more often!

CHELSEA + TREVOR + DASH

Here we are...happy as clams!

STEVIE: Our little furry baby

How could you not love a little guy this handsome? He is really smart too.